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A Shortbread map style that looks a bit less beige

@Zverik OK, fixed. https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_osmf_shortbread.html#17.59/59.389977/24.717497 looks more sensible now. There are a couple of other bugfixes that could do with merging into this style too; I’ll do that as time permits in the coming days.

A Shortbread map style that looks a bit less beige

That’s a https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway=living_street not in a residential area - I definitely need to look at that. I think all my examples were in residential areas, like https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_svwd03.html#17.59/54.551428/-1.904913 . The “draw living streets without casing” thing was supposed to be a way of distinguishing them from other streets, but obviously that does not work here.

In the style that I used the cartography from I eventually changed that (see https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index_svwd01.html#17.59/54.551428/-1.904913 ) so it should just be a case of merging that change into this style too.

Rearranging the world around Nominatim for fun and profit

Obviously me using traditional counties in the example above is a bit of a joke, but some people do seem to take it seriously. I was in this pub earlier today, and the landlady was very insistent that it was in Yorkshire not anywhere else. She’d agree with my joke server about the county:

https://h20.atownsend.org.uk/nominatim/search?q=53.538625,-2.013794
"5, Chew Valley Road, Saddleworth, Greenfield, Oldham, Yorkshire, England, OL3 7JZ, United Kingdom"

although it’s chosen the street name from the back door rather than the front.

Further up the road the museum has this sign on the wall:

Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery west wall

so it’s not just her!